Point-at is strictly a rotation. It never pans.

It sounds like you're expecting the the cube to pan along with the sphere, as if it was parented. Point at doesn't work that way. It never moves an object. It only rotates it so that it always points at whatever you said it should point at.

For example, if you have a spotlight shining on a sphere, and you move the sphere, the spotlight will continue to point at the sphere by rotating in place, without moving from its current position. That's all that point at does.

If you want an object to move with another object you parent it.

However, it may be you intend to rotate the target object and your desire is that the cube does not orbit when the target rotates. If you parent the cube to the sphere, and pan the sphere, the cube will pan. If you rotate the sphere, the cube will orbit. I'm not aware of any way to change that.

However, with Poser 8's dependent parameters, you could slave the position of the cube to the position of the sphere, so that panning the sphere pans the cube too, in the same way that parenting does. In that situation, the cube would never rotate or orbit except because you told it to explicitly, or if you also had it point at something.

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